Drawing on the wealth of experience garnered as an insurance lawyer, Denise's professional life now focuses on mediating disputes. She is accredited as a mediator by ADR Group, and a member of In Place Of Strife Mediation Chambers. Her approach to mediation focuses on finding commercially practical solutions which the parties can, and are prepared to, live with.

She has been described as 'one of the most pro-active and effective mediators I have used', & as being a 'personable and calm negotiator' with 'out of the box thinking'.

Denise served for many years on the board of trustees of the Irish charity, Cardiac Risk in the Young. She has a life-long interest in economics, and in many aspects of the performing arts.